The behavior of most lower animals – insects, reptiles, amphibians, most rodents and birds is instinctive and unaffected by learning.
For the first week of life, a baby sees nothing but a gray blur regardless of what he looks at.
A child learns to talk more quickly if the adults around the child habitually repeat the word he or she using the proper pronunciation.
The best way to get a chronically noisy down and pay attention is to punish him or is trying to say,
school child to settle her.
No reputable psychologists takes seriously such irrational phenomena as ESP, hypnosis, or the bizarre mental and physical achievements of Eastern yogis.
Highly intelligent people – “geniuses” – tend to be physically frail and socially isolated.
On the average, you cannot predict from a person’s grades at school and college whether he or she will do well in a career.
Most national and ethnic stereotypes are completely false.
In small amounts, alcohol is a stimulant.
LSD causes chromosome damage.
The largest drug problem in the United States, in terms of the number of people affected, is marijuana.
Psychiatry is a sub division of psychology.
Most mentally challenged people are also mentally ill.
A third or more of the people suffering from severe mental disorders are potentially dangerous.
Electroshock therapy is an outmoded technique rarely used in today’s mental hospitals.
The more severe the disorder, the more intensive the therapy required to cure it; for example, schizophrenics usually respond best to psychoanalysis.
Quite a few psychological characteristics of men and women appear to be inborn; in all cultures for example, women are more emotional and sexually less aggressive than men.
Slow learners remember more of what they learn than fast learners.
Most developmentally disabled people also have psychological disorders.